Athens Water Festival

Elemental Water Festival

Save the Date for Athens Water Festival 2023!

When: Saturday, September 9th 2023, 10AM-2PM

Where: Sandy Creek Park

More information coming soon!

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Thank you to these organizations for making the 2022 Athens Water Festival a success! Check out Lily Anne Phibian's Facebook page for more pictures from the festival. 


ACC Water Conservation: Learn how water travels around our earth in the never-ending water cycle. Walk like a dinosaur & discover your water footprint!

Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful: Unearth the secrets of litter & make it go extinct!

ACC Cooperative Extension & Master Gardeners: Make a pot out of newspaper & plant a seed inside. Remember to water! Make an edible compost too.

State Botanical Gardens of GA: Learn how bogs can preserve fossils.

Public Utilities & Transportation and Public Works: Splash in the spray and explore the trucks needed to take care of our water in ACC.

GA River Network: Learn about GA rivers and the animals that call them home through a wildlife matching game.



ACC Stormwater: Turn into a raindrop moving from street to stream!

UGA Marine Sciences: Get up close & personal with creatures from the Georgia coast. Use plaster to make your own fossil!

UGA Water Resource Team: To flush or not to flush, that is the question. Test your flushing knowledge.

Art Truck: Use watercolors to create a beautiful dinosaur! 

ACC Extension SNAP Ed: Drink the water the dinosaurs drank!

Oconee River Trout Unlimited: Learn tips and tricks to better your cast.

EcoReach: Find out of alligators & turtles are living dinosaurs.

UGA Strauss Lab: Get an up-close view of zooplankton from Lake Chapman.


ACC Recycling: Discover how you can keep dinosaurs "alive" by recycling!

Upper Oconee Watershed Network: Identify insects that lived with the dinosaurs.

Sandy Creek Nature Center: Touch dinosaur fossils & learn how they are made.

Bear Hollow: Meet local wildlife and get crafty.

Brown Scientific: See if oil and water mix while making a lava lamp.

Family Interactions Project: Color, paint, & learn about water.

Bubble Bo: Play & create bubbles of all shapes and sizes.

Pop Up Park: Let the fun begin with lots of games and activities!


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